Icebreaker (Interior) // Escape from Tarkov

This time I want to focus on the interior of the ship and show a bit more of what it's really like to be inside.

The icebreaker is a maze of tangled corridors that connect into one another, almost like a real labyrinth. The location is also extremely vertical, which makes it feel like the ship just goes on forever.

Finding references for all of this was a real struggle. General information about the Project 22220 icebreaker is available online — some photos, a few videos, interviews — but there were no blueprints or schematics showing how it's built inside. Eventually we managed to track down some of the earliest blueprints of the project, and that became the foundation for everything you see here. A lot of people probably assumed we'd actually visited the icebreaker, since it turned out so detailed — but to be honest, all of this was pieced together bit by bit: screenshots from interviews filmed on board, all kinds of photos, everything we could possibly get our hands on.

When we assembled the first prototype in the early stages — not all the rooms and passages were ready yet — it was already possible to launch it and see the space through the player's eyes. It took me around 40 minutes to run through the entire ship, and that was the moment I realized just how massive a vessel like this would be in real life.

Art Dream Team:

Vladimir Opara

Andrew Wells

Denis Nemytov

Dmitry Tregubov

Evgeny Simonov

Vladislav Martynenko